Poems

Those who don`t  feel this Love pulling them like a river, those who don`t drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset like supper, those who don`t want to change, let them sleep This Love is beyond the study of theology, that old trickery and hypocrisy. If […]

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone`s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.  Rumi  

Forget the world, and so command the world.  Rumi

 A fire has risen above my tombstone hat. I don`t want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music and this dawn and the warmth of your cheek against mine. The grief-armies assemble, but I`m not going with them. This is how it always is when I finish a […]

Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening. The business of love is to make the window of the heart, for the breast is illumined by the beauty of the Beloved. Gaze incessantly on the face of your Beloved! Listen, […]

Collect your mind’s fragments that you may fill yourself bit by bit with meaning. The one disciple who meditates the mysteries of creation for sixty minutes gains more merit than from sixty years of fasting and prayer. Meditation: high-soaring hawk of the intellect’s wrist resting at last on the flowering […]

Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to Celestial Music everywhere. Rumi

With every breath the Sound of Love surrounds us, and we are bound for the depths of space, without distraction. Out beyond duality, we have a Home, and it is Majesty. That pure substance is different from this dusty world. We once came down; soon we’ll return. Rumi

Things that are Real are Given and Received in Silence. God has been everlastingly working in Silence, unobserved, unheard except by those who Experience His Infinite Silence. Meher Baba   

On the path of Love 
we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand  of the Master Painter. We have no idea where we are. Rumi

A mystic knows without knowledge, without intuition or information, without contemplation or description or revelation. Mystics are not themselves. Attar  

“Two things of your world were made lovely to me, perfume and women; and the coolness of my eyes is in prayer.” Hadith, Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.s.)

You can muffle the drum, And you can loosen the strings of  the lute, But who shall command the nightingale not to sing? Khalil Gibran

If you are seeking, seek us with joy,  for we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else 
but to the love of those who are clear joy. 
Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they […]

For those who see only God, their vision Is pure, and not a doubt remains.   Even if our world is turned upside down and blown over by the wind, If you are doubtless, you won’t lose a thing.   All this eating and sleeping has made you ignorant and […]

There’s hidden sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music. If the brain and belly are burning clean with fasting,  every moment a new song comes out of the fire.  When you fast, good habits gather […]

Nothing tyrannizes the heart of a sufi. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl. Rumi

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. Rumi

Laughter What is Laughter? What is Laughter? It is God waking up! O it is God waking up! It is the sun poking it sweet head out From behind a cloud You have been carrying too long. Veiling your eyes and heart. It is Light breaking ground for a great […]